Civilian or ISIS Member?
The 2011 Arab Spring act started in Egypt and Tunisia, which later inspired Syrian’s to take to the streets and demonstrate against Assad. Syrians all over voiced their unhappiness with the stagnant political process and were advocating for new democratic reforms. “A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster” (Oxford Dictionary) is what we call a Refugee, but with the current war on Terrorism/ISIS it is hard to distinguish whether they are really refugees or working with ISIS undercover. More than four million refugees of the Syrian Civil war have fled Syria, and left to neighboring countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, and some even ended
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The movement began as a peaceful demonstration but eventually outside forces joined and began to use this movement for other purposes - mainly violent ones. The protests turned into massive ones around March of the same year and thousands of people took the streets of Syria. Later in April 2011, the Syrian government decided to send out the military to subdue the protests. Opposition groups began to arm themselves and fight back, and they were aided by the Syrian military members who joined them as well. The government was not happy about these protests and they responded with extreme measures such as torturing and killing protesters, kidnapping, and mistreatment. The government troops opened fire on civilians and the civilians fired back in response to this. The result of this was the Syrian army quickly turning this to an armed conflict. Daily, terrorist groups sabotage innocents, blow up buildings/infrastructure, bomb roads, and murder civilians in mass scales. Many communities are destroyed and terrorized, families are displaced and broken apart, and people are being murdered on the streets - security officials and civilians. These evil acts are being put through by the Free Syrian Army, as well as some ISIS overlap. With the continuous bombings, deaths, and uncertainty in these Syrian civilians lives, many began to fled Syria and crossed to neighboring countries to seek
The Refugee crisis across Europe and beyond is among the most complex topics in the world right now. Most of the refugees are coming from Syria, but why? Why can’t they just stay at home? Within the last 5 years there has been a mass exodus of civilians in Syria; other countries have experienced very similar scenarios with civilians leaving. With so many are leaving, it is quite difficult for refugees to find safe places to stay. About 6 years ago Syria was among the most stable countries in the Middle East (though ruled by what can be described as a dictator). However, civil war and economic problems have severely affected them. Their President Bashar Al-Assad has made many extremely controversial decisions. Two causes of the Syrian
Syria’s civil war is the worst humanitarian crisis of modern time. The “Syrian Civil war Began in March of 2011, between rebel brigades and government force; economy and infrastructure is destroyed” (Library, 2016). “Divisions between secular and religious fighters, and between ethnic groups, continue to complicate the politics of the conflict” (Corps, 2016). Additionally, the Syrian civil war has taken a significant
In document E multiple solid points are brought up on the influence of ISIS on the rebellion : “ ISIS has changed the course of the Syrian war. It has forced the mainstream Syrian opposition to fight on two fronts… ISIS is a group with an international profile and and extremeist view of Islamic rule. And it has shown its readiness to take on any Syrians it doesn’t like opposition or regime supporters. “ This gives us a wild card among the violence, one that causes violence for both sides, which is just like stirring the pot. It weakens the rebellion, causing to fight two things, and will provide fuel until people stop supporting the group, which could be
Imagine this. You’re rapidly fleeing your home country, sprinting as your life depended on it, which it did. The memories of the terrible war, still pounding in your head. The piercing roar of the gunshots. The gruesome red blood, glistening in the sunlight. You need to go, go to a free country, a land where everything is safe and sound, and not demolished like your home. You need to go, you need to leave Syria.
The reason behind Syrians fleeing their home country is to get away from the absolute violence, Syrian civil war has caused, the collapsing infrastructure of the country, and to keep children safe.The outbreak of a civil war in March 2011 caused 9 million Syrians to leave since then (“Syrian Refugees: A Snapshot of the Crisis – in the Middle East and Europe” 1). The Syrian Civil War has left more than two-hundred forty thousand people dead, including twelve thousand children.
The Syrian people began taking to the streets in hopes of a peaceful protest against the Assad regime. The Syrian government did not like this one bit and responded with excessive force, resulting in the shooting, killing, and torturing of many innocent peaceful protesters. This soon escalated into an all out civil war where the country was divided into three major groups that are occupied by the regime members, islamic extremists, and rebel fighters. The conflict in this area has become so brutal and entangled with foreign help from many countries, that citizens of the affected war zones needed to evacuate their villages to be
Due to the recent crises caused by the conflict in Syria, more than four million refugees have fled that region of the
This act forced thousands of people to leave their homes for safer places within their country if they did not want to follow the factions rules. Over time, the factions grew more and more powerful causing allies of these countries to send reinforcements and help defeat these rebel groups. The increased military presence forced more people to leave, some left for other countries, hoping to one day return. The amount of people displaced from the war just in Syria is “11 million people within and beyond the country’s borders”(Zong). Approximately 5 million of these refugees left the country for safe countries around the world. If each country in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas each took an equal amount of people the refugee crisis wouldn't be as big of an issue as it currently is. Currently, some countries are taking in far more than others, while some countries are taking in next to none. The majority of Syrian refugees have taken asylum in other middle eastern countries, with Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan holding the vast majority, with each having over 1.2 million. In Europe, Germany and Sweden have taken in 64 percent of all asylum seekers who have ventured to Europe, while
Attention getter- Have you ever been forced to leave your hometown without committing any crimes or doing something wrong? Imagine yourself waking up one day, seeing that you are in the middle of the war with people running around and screaming for their lives. Such incident may seem very unlikely to happen to you however, the people of Syria have been experiencing it for almost everyday of their lives. .
As Ali Khedery states in the article, The Guardian, “They came about by Facing Assad's army and intelligence groups, Lebanon's Hezbollah, Iraq's Shia Islamist militias , Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Syria's initially peaceful protesters quickly became dismayed and disillusioned, which eventually turned them into an army full of hatred (The Guardian)”. The Shia Islamist began to use complete brute force to gain the surrounding countries attention in the form of chemical weapons, large artillery bombs, heavy machine guns, and complete control of the public by intimidation. When Syria's Sunni Arab revolutionaries pleaded to the world leaders for help, they were turned away. At this time the world leaders didn’t feel that ISIS was strong so the people did not feel them to be a major threat. So when the world refused to help them, they made a pact with al-Qaida. With the pact made, it became the “perfect storm” for evil! They began to use numbers and brute force to perform public beheadings, dismember children, and openly threaten all Christians with death. Now the majority of families and individuals affected by this genocide started to migrate to Syria to seek refuge. During this time of trouble, Nouri al-Maliki from Iraq was involved with corrupt politics and losing a lot of his powerful supporters trust for breaking a lot of promises made that he didn’t keep caused a major
The Syrian refugees are still trying to flee the country from ISIS and Al-Assad. The war has been going on for about six years- worldvision. Since March 15, 2017, 5 million refugees fled to other countries as and more than 6 million placed within the country, this news is also from worlvision. Al-Assad responded to some very peaceful protests by sending the military, killing and imprisoning many Syrian people explained by the AlJazeera new network. Unfortunately, Al-Assad wasn’t chosen by the people. The religion that ISIS supports comes from the Islamic state- BBC News. Mrs. Howard informed me that he was democratically elected. Al-Assad isn't a part of ISIS but is trying to fight. He isn't as determined to fight ISIS because it didn’t start in Syria he said this while interviewed by the Italian television. The government in Syria is very corrupt. In the U.S. the two states that have the most refugees are Texas and California. Allen west created that map to show which parts of the U.S. had how many refugees. He also posted that there are now 15 states that that will no longer accept refugees.
The Syrian refugee crisis has received massive media coverage. People around the world are trying to comprehend the desperate, complicated situation surrounding Syria. The civil war in Syria is the worst crisis in our time. Syrians upset at the fact that long promised reforms have not been enacted, began anti-government demonstrations which started the civil war in 2011. The peaceful protests turned ugly, with the government violently putting an end to those protests. Afterward, ordinary citizens took arms, causing the situation to escalate. Syrians are fleeing their homes because of the great violence, which have left thousands dead and millions wounded, a collapsed infrastructure, resulting in a shattered economy, and for the safety of the children. Syrians are either streaming to surrounding countries or risking their lives to travel to Europe.
In addition, illegal immigrants are increasing as a result of war in other countries. According to CNN News in Syria, an anti-regime uprising that started in March 2011 has spiraled into civil war. More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict. More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other. People are fighting with neighbors all over the world. Every moment the fear of death is a present reality. No one can lead a normal life. They do not have enough food to survive. Thousands of children have seen parents killed or die at an early age themselves. These conflicts affect many cultures. Some people have decided to escape at any cost. Faez, a Syrian refugee, decided to flee Syria after he was detained and accused of being a terrorist. An
Syrian civil war started in 2011 was the outcome of the opposition against the President Bashar al-Assad regime. The uprising emerged as a response to the Arab spring movement that lead to regime change in Tunisia and subsequently turned into mass unrest rooted into the discontent with long-term dictatorship and poor economic situation in the country (Manfreda, n.d.). The number of Syrian citizens killed in the civil war reached 140000 since March 2011 (SBS 2014). The European Commission (2014, 2) reports approximately 9.3 million civilians “in need for humanitarian assistance”. The scale of armed rebellion between government and opposition that lead to an increasing number of casualties among civilians did not remain unnoticed by the
The Syrian Arab Republic is an Arab country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the North, Iraq to the East, Jordan to the South, and Israel to the Southwest. In March 2011, the Syria conflict has begun due to various reasons and is still going on today. This outbreak is one of the key factors which resulted the Arab Spring (Arab Uprising). Arab Spring refers to the democratic uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world in 2011. The protest originated in Tunisia in December 2010 and quickly took hold in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. In these countries, the citizens intiatied the protests as the ruling families have been